A journey through an ice plant via razor blade. (silent)

The first in a series of releases dealing with various themes, some content may be duplicated throughout. Feel free to edit and distribute this content freely. I encourage anyone interested in screening their own variations of this content to let me know and I'll link to any events or performances which incorporate this work at my site:

silverfishcloset.com

If you would like access to the full quality, uncompressed loops that comprise this work feel free to contact me and we can work something out. Creative Commons is a contagious idea, but perhaps I'm just susceptible.

I hope to continue posting clips of this nature on a regular basis. Some of the shots in this piece had been sitting around on a hard drive stashed away in a desk for almost 3 years.

David Montgomery
david@silverfishcloset.com


This movie is part of the collection: Community Video

Producer: David Montgomery
Audio/Visual: silent, color
Keywords: Experimental Animation; Live Visuals; A/V content; VJ; Video Art; Natural; Stop Motion; Organic; Plant

Creative Commons license: Attribution 3.0

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Reviewer: jegler - - January 23, 2011
Subject: creepy and organic
That not crazy, that's brilliant! Surely you have a youtube channel. how come so few people post their youtube channel addresses? Not too sure what to tell you as far as encoding - clearly the archive doesn't allow for 1028 mp4s. bummer. I know that digitaleyes has an awesome encoding configuration. check his stuff out. I've downloaded now hundreds of vj clips and you two are my top picks. Oh and I can't remember how I stumbled on these clips. Trolling, always trolling...

http://www.youtube.com/redlightrecords

Reviewer: descaflow - - December 28, 2010
Subject: Glad you could put the clips to some use
Hey jegler,

I meant to reply sooner and ask if had any recommendations for a middle ground between the huge 'animation' compressed quicktimes and the mp4's.

You pretty much have the technique figured out. I've been spending most of my days for some time now using a flatbed scanner as my primary tool for animation (I've been called crazy more than once). The cross section of the flower base was left on the scanner glass for about a week and scanned several times a day. I used after effects to loop it back and forth.

If you get a chance let me know how you found the footage (search terms or link) and thanks for the compliments. I've had a lot of fun screening my work at family events and talking to kids about it.